The mother of a five-year-old boy killed by an alleged hit-and-run driver wept in court as she relived the tragedy.

Samuel Walker died after being hit by a Mitsubishi Gallant at Hardy Lane, Chorlton, on February 9, 2003. It is alleged the car 'drove at' his young family - despite his mother’s screams of panic.

Nawnee Mackin, 35, of Astbury Avenue, Chorlton, is on trial accused of causing death by dangerous driving after a witness identified him a decade on from the collision.

The car’s owner, Craig Chevelleau, 33, of Hathersage Road, Longsight, denies he perverted the course of justice by falsely claiming the vehicle had been stolen on that day.

Describing the movement of the car that day, Samuel’s mother, Jacqueline Tokmac, told the jury: “It was almost like it was playing a game.”

Craig Chevelleau

Questioned by Henry Blackshaw, prosecuting, Mrs Tokmac told the court she was crossing Hardy Lane to her mother’s house with Samuel, his elder sister and their cousin for a Sunday afternoon picnic when she heard a ‘loud revving noise’.

“I saw the car racing down the road, 30ft away”, she said. “It was going so fast I just was kind of shocked at the speed - it was making no attempt to slow down. It seemed to be swerving. It was almost like it was playing a game. I was just so focused on the car and I was just screaming for him to stop.”

Mrs Tokmac told the jury she did not have to time to get to either side of the road ‘because of the swerving’.

She describing catching a glance of of the driver as he passed within two feet of her. Then she broke down as she recalled how she saw her son Samuel, ‘coming from the wheel, from undeneath the car’, before running to his motionless body.

At a 2013 ID parade she identified Mr Mackin, telling a police officer: “It was him...I seen that person run over my son.”

The court heard evidence that Mrs Tokmac had previously been convinced that the car’s owner, Craig Chevelleau, was the driver that day.

Challenged about this by Mackin’s defence, she said: “I was only convinced because everyone thought it was (Chevelleau) - but I didn’t pick him out (in an ID parade) because I knew it wasn’t him.”

She added: “I will never forget that face, I will never forget those eyes - I know who the driver was”.